Dexys Midnight Runners

Founded in Birmingham in 1978, Dexys Midnight Runners released three critically and commercially successful albums – Searching For The Young Soul Rebels (1980), Too-Rye-Ay (1982) and Don’t Stand Me Down (1985).

The band had a string of top ten hits in the 1980s, including two number ones, Geno (1980) and Come on Eileen (1982).

Front person Kevin Rowland would go on to release both solo and further band albums, under the ‘Dexys’ name, including their 2012 ‘comeback’ album, One Day I’m Going To Soar, which came out to widespread acclaim and 2023’s The Feminine Divine, which made number 6 in the U.K. albums chart.

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